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[On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery; it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug.

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Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.

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I respect a man who knows how to spell a word more than one way.

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Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

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It is easy to find fault, if one has that disposition. There was once a man who, not being able to find any other fault with his coal, complained that there were too many prehistoric toads in it.

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A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.

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Nearly all black and brown skins are beautiful, but a beautiful white skin is rare.

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History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up peaceably.

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There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.

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For we were little Christian children and early learned the value of forbidden fruit.

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Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.

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Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out... and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel.... And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for the universal brotherhood of man with his mouth.

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Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.

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Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right.

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A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand.

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There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.

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If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day.

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It is not a new thing for a thoroughly good and well-meaning preacher´s soft heart to run away with his soft head.

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Imagination labors best in distant fields.

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The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow.

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